Check-book cover.



H.'A. SMITH.

CHECK BOOK COVER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. H. 1916.

Patented Feb. 27,1917.

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HERBERT ARTHUR. SMITH, or sT. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

CHECK-BOOK COVER;

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1917.

Application filed October 11, 1916. Serial No. 125,091.

3v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT ARTHUR SMITH, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey j and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Check-Book Cover, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide novel means whereby checks or slips of any other kind will be prevented from being flattened down.

in a pocket check book, thereby avoiding a creasing of the checks transversely, it being a matter of common knowledge that 1f a check is creased down too tightly trans versely, it can be written upon only with difficulty, when opened out flat.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings z Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a check book embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan wherein the check book has been opened, parts being broken away; and

Fig. 8 is a perspective view showing the shaper over which the checks are folded.

The structure forming the subject matter of this application may be assembled with check books of difierent kinds, but in the present instance there is shown a check book comprising a back 1 provided on one end with an extension2which may have an exterior pocket 3. The other end of the back 1 is provided with an outer cover 4 terminating in a tongue 5. Checks or slips of any other kind, indicated at 7, are connected at one end, as shown at 8, in any suitable manner, with the back 1, near to the point where the back 1 joins the extension 2.

In the ordinary operation of a book of the kind hereinbefore set forth, the extension 2 is folded forwardly until it rests on the checks or slips 7 near to their stub ends. The checks 7 then are folded backwardly on top of the extension 2. The cover 4 is folded backwardly, on top of the ends of the checks.

The tongue 5 on the end of the cover 1 is extended'beneath the back 1, as indicated in Fig. 1, and is held in place on the back by means of the snap fastener 6. v

The disadvantage attendant upon such a procedure is that the checks or slips 7 are foldedtoo sharply across the forward edge of the extension 2. As a consequence, the checks or slips are creased, and can be written upon only with difficulty.

In order to prevent the checks from being 6;

folded too sharply, as above mentioned, recourse is had to the structure depicted in Fig. 3 of the drawings, which shows in perspective, a shaper, adapted to be assembled with the free end of the back 1. This shaper comprises a plate 9, the side edges of which are bent to form overhanging flanges 10. The transverse forward edge of the plate 9. is fashioned into a circular bead 11, the longitudinal edge of which is free, as indicated at 12. The bead 11 preferably has some resiliency.

In practical operation, the free end of the extension 2 is inserted beneath the flanges 10,

and then the checks or slips 7 are folded 8 across the enlarged bead '11, after the manner'ofFig. 1, it being obvious that, under such circumstances, a sharp creasing or folding of the checks or slips will be avoided.

The bead has some resiliency, since one of its edges is free as shown at 12 and this construction enables the tongue 5 to be drawn into place beneath the back '1, and to be engaged by the snap fastener 6 as shown in Fig. 1. Further, since the bead 11 has some the extension being adapted to be folded over on top of the checks, the checks at their free ends being adapted to be folded over on top of the extension, and the outer cover being adapted to be folded over onto the folded ends of the checks; and a shaper carried by the free end of the extension and of greater diameter than the thickness of the extension, the shaper being curved and engaging the checks, to prevent a sharp creasing thereof, When the checks are folded across the shaper.

2. A check book embodying a back; an eX- tension hinged to one end of the back; checks-connected With the back, the extension being adapted to be folded over'on top- 7 10 and a shaper comprising means foinreoeiving 4 the free end of the extension removably, the sh'aper including a curved head across which the checks are adapted to be flexed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, Iha ve hereto-affixed my signature 15 Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing theirGommissionmofi Patents,

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